URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1982
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Volume
III
Number
1982
Province
Asia
Subprovince
Conventus of Smyrna
Region
Ionia
City
Smyrna
Reign
Hadrian
Person (obv.)
Antinous
Magistrate
Marcus Antonius Polemon (strategos)
Dating
AD 134/5
Obverse inscription
ΑΝΤΙΝΟΟϹ ΗΡΩϹ
Edition
Ἀντίνοος ἥρως
Translation
Antinous Hero
Obverse design
bare head of Antinous, left
Reverse inscription
ΠΟΛΕ ΜΩΝ ΑΝΕ ΘΗΚΕ ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΟΙϹ
Edition
Πολέμων ἀνέθηκε Σμυρναῖοις
Translation
Polemon dedicated (this) to the Smyrnaeans
Reverse design
prow, right
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
40 mm
Average weight
39.06 g
Axis
6
Reference
Blum Smyrna 1–2, Klose XLVI, 34–36
Specimens
5 (3 in the core collections)
Note
On the Dionysiac sense of the prow, see C. Kuhn, 'M. Antonius Polemon und die Dionysia. Zur Bedeutung des Prora-Motivs auf kaiserzeitlichen Münzen Smyrnas', Athenaeum 99, 2011, 145–153.
